From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/26/20 1:02 PM, Avrina wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:35:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote:
>>> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):
>>>>>
>>>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
>>>>
>>>> This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is 
>>>> clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please 
>>>> paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after 
>>>> a few hours. Some publicity is better than nothing at all.
>>>
>>> Here.
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639552
>>>
>>> It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple 
>>> link, community comes last.
>>
>> From https://wiredcraft.com/blog/how-to-post-on-hacker-news/:
>>
>> "Direct links to the post don’t allow people to vote. The link we have 
>> at the bottom of the post for example 
>> (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200847) won’t work for upvoting. 
>> We need upvotes to be made from the newest page or the front page."
> 
> "It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple 
> link, community comes last."

There's some massive misunderstanding here. Do you understand the reason 
he did not a post a simple link?